⚡️❌ NEW - Proton VPN got caught running price sensitivity tests on its own users, then told everyone it was a stale sale. Here's what happened. People on Proton's subreddit noticed they were being quoted different prices for the same plan. Refresh the pricing page and VPN Plus shows $2.77/mo at 72% off. Open a fresh incognito window and it's $3.23/mo at 68% off. Same plan, same country, same second. Nothing about the visitor changed. Proton VPN's General Manager replied that there was no adaptive pricing, that a sale had recently ended, and that the intro prices hadn't "universally refreshed." He called the low numbers an error and suggested people grab them before they got fixed. Then Windscribe pulled the page source. Every visitor is being sorted into a variant, and the test is labeled in plain text inside an HTML meta tag: ab-test:VpnHpAndPricingVpnPlusSensibility300726. One session returns content="A", the other returns content="B". Two separate pricing URLs, one normal and one flagged test-300726-b. A screen recording shows the price flipping between clean incognito sessions, $3.49 at 65% off, then $2.99 at 70% off. Expired sales don't do that. Cached pages don't do that. Cloudflare has never once injected a named A/B test into anyone's markup. Worth being precise about the wording, because Proton was. Adaptive pricing uses your personal data to set a number tailored to you. Price sensitivity testing quotes different people different prices for the identical product to find out how far you can push before sales drop off. The GM denied the first one. Nobody accused them of the first one. A/B testing prices is ordinary commerce. Amazon does it, airlines do it in their sleep, and almost nobody would have cared. But Proton sells privacy, and privacy is a trust product. The experiment was never the scandal. The denial was. Run the tests. Just don't call it a glitch when your own code is holding a sign with the test's name on it.

⚡️🌋🇯🇵 NEW - Huge eruption of Sakurajima Volcano, with ash falling across Kagoshima, Japan (08.08.2026)

⚡️🇺🇾⚽️ UNUSUAL - In Uruguay, the ball from a second-division professional soccer match ended up on the road near the stadium after a clearance, causing a fender-bender. The Montevideo team plays all of its home games there.

⚡️📣 FYI - 33,000 sats is the daily target for starting to build up a sustainable Flash position lnbc330u1p48sjc5pp5zqw2v47f68tu99lee3cdv6c7nv8pzcfye88f2vxh3d3dd8fpyzescqzyssp5dsazjtf2vasg608snhvh40rs6c9kv7y2l9qm204a39c3x5ze0uhq9q7sqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqsqqqqqysgqdqqmqz9gxqyjw5qrzjqwryaup9lh50kkranzgcdnn2fgvx390wgj5jd07rwr3vxeje0glcllar8qy0dnahscqqqqlgqqqqqeqqjq0gn9qah5e6nztqa29mvakyywmk0g62artvtseufcwx8q8ha2t8qjecuae8hxm2jscq9rrmdpm0xxns2me99q7ymrthg3f3aucs02zagqr5p7u8

⚡️💢 NEW - Israeli settlers violently attacked Palestinians and solidarity activists in Taybeh, east of Ramallah, on Friday, according to Quds News. Footage shows one settler repeatedly punching a female activist as she tries to protect herself.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Coinkite, the manufacturer of Coldcard, has announced that it will publish a post-incident analysis report. The company refuses to estimate customer losses. It states that it is focusing on assisting customers affected by the security incident. According to the company, the privacy-focused design of its products prevents it from independently verifying external estimates of the amount stolen. Losses resulting from the attack are estimated at approximately $130 million...

⚡️🎪🇺🇸 NEW - The US national debt has crossed $39.8 TRILLION and is on track to hit $40 TRILLION by November. The US has added nearly $3 TRILLION in debt in the last 12 months alone.

⚡️🇺🇦🇮🇱 NEW - Zelensky: We are very often asked about Israel. We would also like to receive air defense from them. We would be ready to buy it. So far, we do not have that possibility, although we are in dialogue.

⚡️🇷🇺🇨🇳 NEW - Russia officially opens new Arctic trade sea route connecting China with Europe Russia's state nuclear giant Rosatom, operator of the Northern Sea Route ​via the Arctic, said on Friday ‌it had issued permits for seven Chinese transit vessels to sail to Europe via the ​NSR.

⚡️🤖🦠 NEW - AI has been used to design 16 viruses that have never existed in nature. Scientists trained the AI on around 9 trillion DNA nucleotides, allowing it to learn patterns from existing genomes and create new viral designs. The viruses were bacteriophages, which infect bacteria such as E. coli, not humans. Researchers tested the AI-generated designs and found 16 that were functional. Experts are warning that AI’s ability to design new biological systems is advancing faster than the safeguards needed to control the potential risks.

⚡️⛏️ ICYMI - Ladies and gentlemen, the chain has split.

⚡️⛏️ UPDATE - BIP-110 CHAIN SPLIT The BIP-110 chain is now one block behind the standard bitcoin blockchain as mandatory signaling for BIP-110 has officially begun

⚡️🥚 NEW - Quailseed turns quail eggs into Bitcoin seeds A new experimental open-source tool called QuailSeed uses the naturally occurring pigment patterns on quail eggs as physical input for generating a 24-word BIP-39 Bitcoin seed phrase. The process photographs 12 eggs from four angles each, analyzes and measures their shell patterns, converts the results into a deterministic transcript, and cryptographically conditions it into 256 bits of entropy. The developers stress that QuailSeed is experimental research software and has not been independently audited, formally verified, or approved as a secure random-number generator or production custody system.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - It’s official: Sony’s PlayStation Direct store has also added the “NOTICE” to PS5 consoles with disc drives and the detachable disc drive itself. "From Jan 2028, newly released games on PlayStation will be available for purchase on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital format only. Discs for games released before Jan 2028 can continue to be played on this console."

⚡️⛏️ UPDATE - Now only 41 blocks to go until BIP-110 mandatory signaling begins Keep an eye on the chain with the site below

⚡️💬 FLASH - The propaganda is so crazy that what we call “vacation” is just living…

⚡️🇺🇦 NEW - Zelensky: I spoke with President Biden in the first year of the war. I asked him very strongly to give me licenses for Patriot. Now we have agreed with Trump that he will provide the licenses. But imagine: if we had received them four years ago, we would already be making Patriots for everyone, believe me. And Europe—those who want and wanted to have Patriot anti-ballistic systems and missiles—would already have them. I am absolutely convinced of that.

⚡️🎙️ WATCH - David Sinclair: “AI helped us do 160 years of biology work in two months.” ROGAN: “What?!” SINCLAIR: “We’re looking for molecules, a single molecule that can replace this cocktail... You need a molecule to do three or four activities in the cell. Finding one activity is what pharmaceutical companies do. It takes hundreds of millions, if not billions, to make a drug.” “My little lab of 20 people and students are trying to make one drug do three or four different things. That’s beyond the reach of pharmaceutical experience, at least five years ago.” “This funnel is full of a trillion molecules, and we have to come down to one. We don’t look for a trillion molecules at the bench. That would take 160 or thousands of years... so we do it inside the computer.” “We just use a lot of compute, and we dock each of these molecules against the enzymes that we now know how they work, thanks to Google DeepMind solving the problem of how all our proteins look, 20,000 of them.” 1 trillion candidate molecules. Filtered to 200. Two months. “Next week, we’re testing these 200 against human cells, and we’ve also got AI helping us tell if the human cells go from 92 years old back to 20. We can tell that just by looking at them, thanks to AI.” Dr. David Sinclair is a Harvard geneticist and one of the world's leading longevity researchers. Fascinating to hear how he's using AI to compress 160 years of biology work into two months. What other decades of work is about to become two months?

⚡️🇺🇸 ICYMI - Acting AG Todd Blanche, has enough votes to get confirmed as Attorney General. Blanche was at the center of the Epstein Files coverup where a reported 3 million files are still not released and no one in the Epstein files has been prosecuted, except Gislaine Maxwell in 2021. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins are voting no. Early Friday, Senator Bill Cassidy said he is voting yes (despite pressure from his constituents to vote no), giving Blanche enough votes to be confirmed.

⚡️💬 TESTIMONIAL - Oomahq : I did my own investigation because I obviously don't trust them. What I found is that the external dependency of the firmware with the critical vulnerability hidden in it was written by CoinKite's CTO DocHex pretending to be someone else. (It's @Coinkite's CTO who made this error, not a junior C developer. It was the senior CTO pretending to be a junior while he talked to himself in issues and PRs.) All of the following can be verified: